January
24, 2009 Trailday Newsletter
Hello Trailblazers!Just a quick reminder about tomorrow's Trailday. The weather's going to be perfect, and we have a special guest presentation.We hope you all had a great holiday season and join us in looking forward to a very prosperous and peaceful new year.

Birding
Adventures featuring the Scrub-jay

The "Birding Adventures" show is
now edited and looking good. We don't know the exact February
air date yet, but we'll pass that along as soon as we know. It
also has been playing daily at the Space
Coast Birding Festival, in Titusville.

The Scrub-Jay Consortium is now the proud owner
of a brand new
Laptop computer.
That puts us just one step closer to
Power Point presentations, which nudges us into the 21st Century.

We now need a video projector, and we'll be set. If you, or anyone you know is able to donate one, we sure would appreciate it. We're going to miss the old Kodak slide projector. Sigh.... Funny, many of the children we present to look at our equipment and ask what's that?!

The new Scrub-Jay Trail brochures are complete.
We're
really proud of the way they look, as we're sure you'll agree.
Special
thanks to David Mazurek and Sandra Groeneveld of Kalimera
Design Company, Inc.for their untiring patience and
artistic excellence. Please feel free to share these brochures
with birding friends and associates of yours. We have them at
the Scrub-Jay Trailhouse.

With a break in the cold weather this weekend.,
we now have a great opportunity to get out in the sunshine and
stretch our muscles. We're looking at temperatures in the 70's
this Saturday! There’s a lot to do, and it would be great
to have a big crowd to handle it:

Clearing and Planting
Where 100 trees were planted last month, we would like to continue
clearing and planting. We have 500 new trees waiting to go
in, so there’s plenty to keep us busy.

Chainsaws
We also need a chainsaw gang to trim the citrus trees down to nesting
size. They’re too large for the scrub-jays to comfortably
nest in, so by trimming them down, we have a better chance for
them to nest in phase 2. Anyone who owns a chainsaw is encouraged
to bring it and join in on the buzz.

Also, please bring gloves,
shovels and rakes if you have them. Looking forward to seeing you
all again. The scrub-jays have been very active as we approach
the breeding season. I’m
sure they’ll be watching over the good work you all will
be doing.

Please RSVP so we know how much
food we’ll need, and as usual, you are invited to contribute
to the food table.